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CD-R erratically detected
In message , glee
writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , glee writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... [] visit John; the trouble is, I don't know if they allow the temp. files location to be specified as burn4free does, and there's not really enough space on the C drive. Which version of Microburner? I have versions 4.x and 5.x here. Silentnight Microburner 5.x has a place in its "burner settings" to choose the temp location. I don't see any way to do it with version 4.x, though. 5.0. Under burner settings, I see something called "Temporary ISO folder placement" under "Direct Copy/Clone Settings", which I presume is something to do with copying one CD to another. I have wondered whether it also uses the folder specified for temporary .wav files, but have yet to find out; if you know that it does, I'll be pleased to try - it looks a nice piece of software. (And the speech is fun.) I haven't used it for music ripping/conversion/etc., so I can't say if that setting applies to it also. Why not try and find out? It can't hurt (too much) eg I intend to! -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** At least with a British car, you know that everything that falls off it is a product of true British workmanship. (Lord somethingorother on Robin Day's programme, 1980-1-15.) |
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CD-R erratically detected
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , dadiOH writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: The suggestion elsewhere in this thread about trying a different brand of disc is also a good idea, especially if the issue is *only* with burning discs, not reading them. The first few we did were with cheap unlabelled ones, which were mostly fine (we had a couple of part-burned ones, but that was I think more a buffer problem - it is a BURN-proof drive, and the software knows that, but still; and moving the "temporary files" space for the .mp3-to-wav conversion to a different partition, combined with reducing the burning speed, seemed to solve that). A fail-safe method is to just decode the MP3s to wave yourself then burn the waves. Many programs to do decoding/encoding, CDex is good, easy and free. http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ GoldWave (with Lame) too. But (a) that part of Burn4Free seems to have worked fine anyway, (b) I suspect it (burnfree) would still intermittently fail to detect there was a blank in the drive, when we tried to burn the .wavs. Right. I was suggesting it as an alternative to your previous buffer problem. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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CD-R erratically detected
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , dadiOH writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: The suggestion elsewhere in this thread about trying a different brand of disc is also a good idea, especially if the issue is *only* with burning discs, not reading them. The first few we did were with cheap unlabelled ones, which were mostly fine (we had a couple of part-burned ones, but that was I think more a buffer problem - it is a BURN-proof drive, and the software knows that, but still; and moving the "temporary files" space for the .mp3-to-wav conversion to a different partition, combined with reducing the burning speed, seemed to solve that). A fail-safe method is to just decode the MP3s to wave yourself then burn the waves. Many programs to do decoding/encoding, CDex is good, easy and free. http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ GoldWave (with Lame) too. But (a) that part of Burn4Free seems to have worked fine anyway, (b) I suspect it (burnfree) would still intermittently fail to detect there was a blank in the drive, when we tried to burn the .wavs. Right. I was suggesting it as an alternative to your previous buffer problem. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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CD-R erratically detected
Meat Plow wrote:
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:02:14 -0600, ???hw??f wrote: In message , "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , Andy writes: [] It isn't the _drive_ that's not being detected - that always shows up in explorer; it's only the fact that there's a blank disc in it that is so often missed. Any ideas what's causing it, and what will improve it? Try a different brand of CD blanks...Taiyo Yuden are among the best. And once you've wasted a couple of quality blank CDs, throw the drive away and spend $20-$30 to replace it. It's ****ed. They don't last forever. I think if it was the blanks, it wouldn't have been burning faultlessly for the last few times we did manage to make it realise there was a disc present. (And with cheap blanks, too.) Will it recongnise if theres a disc in the drive that has data on it? If so then its probably the media itself. CD/RW discs are a problem sometimes. It's not that old - only a year or two; the elderly PC had a non-writing drive (still there). It's actually a CD and DVD writer, as I couldn't even find a CD-only one. It's not been used much. Did you ever drop it? I will try the cleaning disc suggestion, but I do think it's a system configuration funny: as I mentioned earlier, when burn4free is told to do a burn, it accesses the floppy drive before getting to the writer. Then you need to g00gle up the website for that app and look for a support section, mate. Appears he's got some corruption in his system part of the registry. If so tehn he s gotta uninstall it and do surgery on the registyryry to remove all the diseased bits. ^_^ |
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CD-R erratically detected
Here a suggestion if he trying to burn cds. Lower the speed down to
12x (Yes, you have to wait longer, but it is more reliable to have the data stored correctly). I notice when my burners are going bad, you can use lower speed for a few months till it quits. My lasted for about a year. Greg |
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CD-R erratically detected
Here a suggestion if he trying to burn cds. Lower the speed down to
12x (Yes, you have to wait longer, but it is more reliable to have the data stored correctly). I notice when my burners are going bad, you can use lower speed for a few months till it quits. My lasted for about a year. Greg |
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CD-R erratically detected
In message , dadiOH
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] A fail-safe method is to just decode the MP3s to wave yourself then burn the waves. Many programs to do decoding/encoding, CDex is good, easy and free. http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ GoldWave (with Lame) too. But (a) that part of Burn4Free seems to have worked fine anyway, (b) I suspect it (burnfree) would still intermittently fail to detect there was a blank in the drive, when we tried to burn the .wavs. Right. I was suggesting it as an alternative to your previous buffer problem. Ah, understood, thanks. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** At least with a British car, you know that everything that falls off it is a product of true British workmanship. (Lord somethingorother on Robin Day's programme, 1980-1-15.) |
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CD-R erratically detected
In message , dadiOH
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] A fail-safe method is to just decode the MP3s to wave yourself then burn the waves. Many programs to do decoding/encoding, CDex is good, easy and free. http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ GoldWave (with Lame) too. But (a) that part of Burn4Free seems to have worked fine anyway, (b) I suspect it (burnfree) would still intermittently fail to detect there was a blank in the drive, when we tried to burn the .wavs. Right. I was suggesting it as an alternative to your previous buffer problem. Ah, understood, thanks. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** At least with a British car, you know that everything that falls off it is a product of true British workmanship. (Lord somethingorother on Robin Day's programme, 1980-1-15.) |
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CD-R erratically detected
In message , S??hW0?Æ’
writes: Meat Plow wrote: [] I will try the cleaning disc suggestion, but I do think it's a system configuration funny: as I mentioned earlier, when burn4free is told to do a burn, it accesses the floppy drive before getting to the writer. Then you need to g00gle up the website for that app and look for a support section, mate. Appears he's got some corruption in his system part of the registry. That is (the sort of thing I) fear, but wouldn't know how ... If so tehn he s gotta uninstall it and do surgery on the registyryry to remove all the diseased bits. .... to do that. (The surgery I mean.) ^_^ -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** At least with a British car, you know that everything that falls off it is a product of true British workmanship. (Lord somethingorother on Robin Day's programme, 1980-1-15.) |
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CD-R erratically detected
In message , S??hW0?Æ’
writes: Meat Plow wrote: [] I will try the cleaning disc suggestion, but I do think it's a system configuration funny: as I mentioned earlier, when burn4free is told to do a burn, it accesses the floppy drive before getting to the writer. Then you need to g00gle up the website for that app and look for a support section, mate. Appears he's got some corruption in his system part of the registry. That is (the sort of thing I) fear, but wouldn't know how ... If so tehn he s gotta uninstall it and do surgery on the registyryry to remove all the diseased bits. .... to do that. (The surgery I mean.) ^_^ -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** At least with a British car, you know that everything that falls off it is a product of true British workmanship. (Lord somethingorother on Robin Day's programme, 1980-1-15.) |
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